Alison Kruse / Big Sigh

Alison Kruse / Big SighAlison Kruse is a Toronto based artist who attended Queens University Fine Art Program. Working in both photo collage and oil paint, her work explores the survivalist concept of Survive and Thrive in an attempt to better understand emotion and what it means to thrive. Alison works in photo collage illustrations and oil painting. Her work is inspired by the distinct characteristics that make a place unique and how they evoke emotion. In addition to her

using high quality wood imported from Italy

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The artworks also uses remnants of ink

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and tea while also exploring innovative artistic materials to bring her visions to life

Art can sometimes feel like an adult pacifier — a soothing mechanism of sorts

Viewers can slowly discover the sense of space created and diminished by the light and shadow cast on each individual work

It’s a journey that invites both challenge and surrender

Her journey began amidst the tumult of the Lebanese civil war and the loss of her father

In this new series

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Her work is predominantly abstract and expressionistic